Description: Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. In this revised and updated edition, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and efficiently using Smart Brevity--think Strunk and White's Elements of Style for the digital age. In Smart Brevity The Power of Saying More with Less, Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz teach readers how to say more with less in virtually any format. They also share communications lessons learned from their decades of experience in media, business and communications.
Brief description: Roy Schwartz is the co-founder and President of Axios, a media company focused on breaking news and invaluable insights across business, politics, technology and the world. Axios helps readers and viewers get smarter, faster across the consequential topics reshaping our country and lives. As President, Schwartz has led Axios through multiple fundraising rounds, overseen all company strategy and business operations and most recently launched Axios HQ, an internal communications software platform to help teams communicate more effectively. Schwartz also serves as executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning docu-news series "Axios on HBO."
Under his leadership, Axios was listed as one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies 2018" and announced as Washington Business Journal's "2021 Fastest Growing Companies." Schwartz has been named as one of DCInno's 2016 "50 on Fire" for marketing and advertising, and as 2015 FOLIO 100 "Corporate Catalyst." Schwartz is the former chief revenue officer for POLITICO. Prior to POLITICO, he was a Partner at Gallup's management consulting practice in Washington, DC and California advising Fortune 500 companies on employee and customer engagement. Schwartz was born in Israel and grew up in England. He has a bachelor's degree and M.B.A. from the University of Maryland.